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We are pleased to announce that the following abstracts have been accepted for the

2021 Planetary Health Annual Meeting. 

Lightning Talk Abstracts
 

     Category: Mental Health

• Changing worlds: Young people’s psychological responses to climate change during COVID-19 and the impact on mental health. Ans Vercammen

• Nurturing health across social-ecological scales: Investigating how therapeutic gardening, care farming, and the soil health movement can improve human and planetary health. Katharine Zywert

• Social Resilience and Climate Change: Findings from Community Listening Sessions. Emily York 

• ‘Catch the sun coming up, wave it off as it goes down’: A qualitative exploration of later life therapeutic landscapes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Viveka Guzman 

• The role of nature and the built environment for health and well-being during COVID-19: A mixed-methods analysis from the GreenCOVID study. Dr. Ronan Foley
  
  View the Recordings of the Mental Health Lightning Talks here
   

• Category: Food and Nutrition

• Qualitative Analysis of Action Plans submitted in the Brazilian MOOC on Planetary Health. Anna Claudia Dilda

• Climate change, hunger and rural health through the lens of farming styles: an agent-based model to assess the potential role of peasant farming. Simon Lloyd

• How much can food waste reduction in each country contribute towards global nutritional and environmental sustainability? Canxi Chen

• The role of local government authorities in facilitating the uptake of healthy and environmentally sustainable diets: A scoping review. Liza Barbour

• Pathways to "5-a-day": modelling the health impacts and environmental impacts of meeting the target for fruit and vegetable intake in the UK. Rosemary Green
  
  View the Recordings of the Food and Nutrition Lightning Talks here
  
  Category: Non-communicable Disease

• Urban Air Pollution and Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in South Asia: Call for action on social determinants. Nilanjan Bhor

• Relationship between ambient PM2·5 and under- five, infant, and child mortality in Latin America: evidence from 337 cities. Ana Ortigoza

• Health Benefits of Electrifying Chicago’s Municipal Vehicle Fleet. Anastasia Montgomery

• Impact of Drought and Airborne Pollutants on Pediatric Asthma Emergency Department Visits in Imperial County, California, USA. Aubrey Doede

• Air Pollution from Extreme Wildfire Events in California. Miriam Marlier
  
  View the Recordings of the Non-communicable Disease Lightning Talks here
  
  Category: Infectious Disease

• Toward Using Climate to Increase Lead-Time of a Malaria Early Warning System in Mozambique. Ryan Harp

• Exposure, hazard and vulnerability all contribute to Schistosoma haematobium re-infection in northern Senegal. Andrea Lund

• The impact of environmental degradation and land use change on malaria re-emergence in Southern Venezuela. Isabel Fletcher

• Exploring the impact of climate change, connectivity, and socio-economic factors on the expansion of dengue fever in 21st century Brazil. Sophie Lee

• Disentangling the impact of weather conditions on COVID-19 transmission dynamics: A systematic review. Rosa von Borries
  
  View the Recordings of the Infectious Disease Lightning Talks here
  
  Category: Displacement, Disruption, and Conflict

• Water–Food–Energy Nexus Effects on Farmers Health of the Southwest Coastal Agricultural Systems in Bangladesh. Byomkesh Talukder

• Health Risks in Our Environment: Urban Slum Youth’ Perspectives Using Photovoice in Kampala, Uganda. Charles Ssemugabo

• Climate Change, Land Degradation and Planetary Health: A Systematic Literature Review. Nilanjana Ganguli

• Women and environmental health in Peru: A qualitative study of perceptions, priorities and project delivery problems across three key sectors. Laura J Brown

• Improving Well-being by Integrating Health and Conservation. Cheryl Margoluis
  
  View the Recordings of the Displacement, Disruption and Conflict Lightning Talks here

Research Poster Abstracts

     Category: Food and Nutrition

• A three-dimensional dietary index (nutritional quality, environment and price) and reduced mortality: The “Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra” cohort. Ujué Fresán

• Historical aspects of the development of cattle production in Brazil. Vanessa Theodoro Rezende

• Incorporation of the precepts of Planetary Health in Nutrition scientific makings. Ana Maria Bertolini

• Developing a local framework to the Brazilian food system considering socioeconomic, nutritional, and environmental aspects. Aline Martins de Carvalho

• Nutritional and environmental characteristics of plant-based school menus: analysis of an initiative to promote human and planetary health in Bahia, Brazil. Alana Kluczkovski

• Agroecology as a way of promoting human and environmental health in a region affected by mining. Anabele Pires Santos

• The popularization of culinary skills as a tool to promote Planetary Health. Nadine Marques Nunes Galbes

• Planetary Health from the Global South: Brazilian perspectives on Sustainable Diets and Meat Consumption. Jennifer Harumi Tanaka

• Food and Sustainability: Food Waste at the Polytechnic of Coimbra. Susana Paixão

• An acoustic treatment to mitigate the effects of aquatic plagues on biodiversity loss/agriculture and prevent collateral consequences in human health. Michel Andre

• Anthropic pressures threatening sea turtles on the southern coast of São Paulo State, Brazil. Catia Helena de Almeida Lima Massari

• Urban agroforestry: how trees can contribute to local urban ecosystem, providing ecosystem services and improving human and planetary health. Ambrogio Zanzi

• Tackling climate change's impacts on planetary health by using local collective action for food and infectious disease. Ilan Kelman

• Food security and sustainable urban planning for resilient and healthy cities: a multiple case study on ten Brazilian cities using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software. Debora Sotto

• A Review of Zoonoses Associated with Consumption and Use of Wildlife in Arctic and Boreal Systems in the Context of Emerging and Pandemic Disease Risk. Lucy Keatts

• Plastics in the food system: Human health, food security/economic and environmental impacts - A systematic scoping review. Joe Yates

• Association between polyphenol intake and hypertension in adults and elderly in a Brazilian cohort. Hillary Nascimento Coletro

• Anthropometric conditions of schoolchildren in Bahia, Brazil: preliminary results of a cohort evaluating an initiative to promote human and planetary health. Camilla Almeida Menezes

• Evaluation of health impact of an intervention project on school meals in a semiarid area in Bahia, northeastern Brazil: Preliminary results. Renata Lago

• Breaking down the supermarket: Understanding the composition of ingredients representing the Australian packaged food and beverage supply. Allison Gaines

• Survey on Market Traders' Perception on Waste Management and its Health Implications at Ijora Fish Market, Lagos, Nigeria. Iyiola Oladunjoye

• Developing a systems approach to identifying the challenges and trade-offs of introducing bio-based plastics in food packaging. Olwenn V. Martin

• Building Robust Evidence for Market-Centered Integrated Development: Initial Lessons from USAID's Health, Ecosystems and Agriculture for Resilient, Thriving Societies Program (HEARTH). Samuel Sellers

• Do we perceive changes in the health of the planet? A case study of the illegal and mechanized gold fever in the Chocó region of Colombia, an approach from the Socioecological Systems. Diana Clavijo 

• Perception, attitudes and the risk factors of obesity in India: a mixed methods approach. Somdutta Barua

• From individual behaviour strategies to sustainable food systems: Countering the obesity and non communicable diseases epidemic in the Pacific. Cath Conn
  
  Category: Displacement and Conflict

• Land use/land cover changes and the effects on the biodiversity in the Upper Paraguay Basin (Brazil). Camila Souza de Andrade 

• Impacts of offshore seismic survey on artisanal fisheries and conflicts with small fishing communities. Fontes Nuno Eduardo Paulo

• Project Providence: real-time acoustic monitoring of biodiversity and implications on human health. Michel Andre 

• Protected areas and its guardians: gathering data from public schools for enhancing outdoor Environmental Education policy-making. Luis Gustavo Arruda

• “People who have their lives organized by nature and by our vital cycles”: narratives about traditional communities, relationships with nature and sustainability. Thaís Presa Martins
   

• Category: Infectious Disease

• Temporal trends of dengue in hyperendemic areas. Maria da Consolação Magalhães Cunha

• Zoonotic Infectious Diseases as Ecosystem Disservices. Rory Wilson

• Disentangling associations between vegetation greenness and dengue in a Latin American city: findings and challenges. Yang Ju

• Correlation between air pollution in São Paulo with hospitalizations in cardiac patients with COVID-19. Lucca Nielsen

• Correlation between air pollution in São Paulo with hospitalizations in diabetes mellitus patients with COVID-19. Mariana Machado

• What works to prevent infectious diseases at the community level? An asset ecosystems approach. Geordan Shannon

• Temporal analysis of dengue in Belo Horizonte from 1996 to 2019 and descriptive coverage by ovitraps from 2007 to 2018. Maria da Consolação Magalhães Cunha

• Rodent population assemblages and the potential for changing Lassa mammarenavirus emergence dynamics in Sierra Leone: A pilot study. David Simons

• Landscape connectivity for Yellow fever: A proxy approach to detect displacement and circulation thought environmental corridors and interfaces. Andre Luis Acosta

• COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study Analyzing Students' Perceptions of Life During the Pandemic. Laura A. Geer
  
  Category: Non-communicable Disease

• Abatement of acute public health impacts from air pollution exposure via electric vehicle adoption in China. Daniel E Horton

• Pharmed Fish: The need for disposal guidance on pharmaceutical packaging. Christine Vatovec
  
  Category: Pollution

• Model towards sustainable circular economy: Brine sludge from a chlor-alkali industry management. Juliana de Carvalho Izidoro

• FGD gypsum applications in production of eco-friendly cementitious matrices: waste management for sustainable construction. Ramiro Hiroito das Neves Bibiano
  
  Category: Climate Change and Adaptation

• Building design, comfort, and health: An urban refuge for heat waves. Bianca Bonachela de Oliveira

• Cooling places for urban climate adaptation: the role of urban planning and design linking green and built-up structures. Bruna Dallaverde de Sousa
  
  Category: Bioethics

• Planetary health and nursing: Analysis in the light of bioethics. Bárbara Braga Cavalcante

• Planetary Health and Bioethics: tools for the sustainability of the planet. Bárbara Braga Cavalcante
  
  Category: Mental Health

• The teacher's view on environmental issues and the development of educational actions in Conservation Units. Flávio Berchez

• Eating Behaviors and Lifestyles with Impact on Perception of Body Image in university students. Susana Paixão

• Global environmental change and planetary health in undergraduate health professions curricula in Latin America. Yasna Palmeiro-Silva

• The potential use of cemeteries as urban green areas of climate and sound amenities. Luisa Araujo Zucchi

• Geography of Quarantine. The impact of a global pandemic on individual well-being. Sina Winkel

• Health and environmental co-benefits of city urban form: the case of Latin American cities. Ione Avila-Palencia 

• Greenness, life-expectancy and education inequalities in life-expectancy in Latin American cities. Mika Ruchama Moran
  
  Category: Other

• Climate change issues in Berlin's local plans: The contextual factors that lead to knowledge mediation. Tiago Rodrigues

• Building Kincentric Awareness in Planetary Health Education: A Rapid Evidence Review. Jessica LeClair

• Amazon Biobank: sustainable development built upon rainforest's biodiversity. Leonardo Toshinobu Kimura

• Association between leisure-time physical activity and socioeconomic context in Brazilian capitals. Amanda Cristina de Souza Andrade

• Racial inequities in self-rated health across Brazilian cities: does residential segregation play a role? Joanna MN Guimarães

• An asset ecosystem approach to maternal health and wellbeing: systematic review and synthesis. Geordan Shannon

• Exploring the role of land-sharing on urban green and cardiovascular health. Douglas William Cirino

• Coronavirus from cities to forests: Mapping vulnerable interfaces and hotspots for Sars-Cov-2 spillover from humans to biodiversity. Andre Luis Acosta

• Analysing climate change and population health in Chile: Policy recommendations from interdisciplinary discussions. Yasna Palmeiro Silva

Project Poster Abstracts

• ABCs of Planetary Health: A children's book initiative. Yina Shan

• Advancing Community Waste Management Practices through Advocacy and Research at Ijora Fish Market, Lagos, Nigeria. Iyiola Oladunjoye

• An interdisciplinary study with eighth grade school children: Teaching nutrition for healthy eating. Neucideia Aparecida Silva Colnago

• Big history and Planetary health: insights from our cosmic evolution. Olga Garcia-Moreno

• Brazilian Planetary Health Club launch: (bio)diversity and articulations. Renata Simoni

• CHIP: Child Health Is Planetary Health. Nathan Uchtmann

• Community garden: fostering food security, place attachment, and wellbeing in previously displaced population. Ulises Charles Rodriguez

• Conservation Units to promote Education and Well-being of students from public schools from São Paulo State, Brazil. Flávio Berch

• Contraception and Consumption in the Age of Extinction: U.S. Survey Results. Kelley Dennings

• Earth's distress calls in the psychic space. Asli Sonceley 

• Eco-ed: Driving change in the climate movement by empowering youth leaders. Sabhyata Sedhain

• Empowering food literacy and building community one dish at a time. Juanita Gnanapragasam

• Executing One Health activities around COVID-19 pandemic – Africa One Health University Network (AFROHUN) Kenya 2020 experience. Sam Wanjohi

• “Food Choices for a Healthy Planet”, an online educational tool to support improved understanding of the complexity and impacts of food choices. Lana Vanderlee

• Learning for the planets future - Transformational planetary health education in the Eastern African Region. Laura Jung 

• Medical Advocacy - Grassroot network “Doctors in Alert” and the “Guaíba Mine” open air coal mine. Rafaela Brugalli Zandavalli

• Medical Education for Planetary Health - a pilot project at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre. Graziella Moraes Machado

• Mobilising health students for climate and health justice. Rhiannon Osborne

• Narrative Prescription: A Practical Storytelling Guide for Health Care Professionals Taking Climate Action. Alyssa Harms-Wiebe

• Nontraditional Approaches to Offsetting Carbon. Cheryl Margoluis

• Pedra Circular Center of Planetary Health: developing actions to build a rapid response model to disasters. Abner Willian Quintino de Freitas

• PlaHNet: Building a young professional community to spread Planetary Health awareness. Ambrogio Zanzi

• Planetary Health and Education for Sustainable Healthcare: Developing an AMEE Consensus Statement. Hannah Chase 

• Sustainability and Affordable Housing: A Conceptual Study Towards Urban Housing Solutions in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Danielle Toccalino

• Teaching Culinary Medicine. Thais Mauad

• The Environmental Physiotherapy Agenda 2023: A grassroots effort at introducing planetary health, environmental and sustainability perspectives into physiotherapy education around the world. Filip Maric

• The Planetary Health Friendship Team. Laura Hanson

• The role of serious games and youth as co-designers in future healthy and sustainable city world-building. Sarah Bodmer

• The Take a Bite out of Climate Change Project. Alana Kluczkovski

• What are the environmental impacts of policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic? A systematic evidence map. Dr Olwenn V. Martin

• What does planetary health mean to health care practitioners; a survey. Dr. Leslie Solomonian, ND

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